{"id":32068,"date":"2016-11-18T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T03:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/chinas-shenzhou-11-manned-space-capsule-returns-to-earth"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:10","slug":"chinas-shenzhou-11-manned-space-capsule-returns-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/chinas-shenzhou-11-manned-space-capsule-returns-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Shenzhou 11 manned space capsule returns to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-shenzhou-11-manned-space-capsule-returns-to-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING China\u2019s Shenzhou 11 space capsule landed safely in the northern region of Inner Mongolia on Friday with two astronauts aboard, state media said, completing the country\u2019s longest manned space mission to date.<\/p>\n<p>China Central Television showed images of the craft \u2014 whose name translates as \u201cDivine Vessel\u201d \u2014 on the ground flanked by Chinese flags and support teams. State news agency Xinhua said the capsule had touched down \u201csuccessfully\u201d just after 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The two astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, spent 30 days aboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, or \u201cHeavenly Palace 2\u201d, which China is using to carry out experiments ahead of a longer-range plan to have a permanent manned space station around 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-space-idUSKBN13D0K4\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-space-idUSKBN13D0K4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING China\u2019s Shenzhou 11 space capsule landed safely in the northern region of Inner Mongolia on Friday with two astronauts aboard, state media said, completing the country\u2019s longest manned space mission to date. China Central Television showed images of the craft \u2014 whose name translates as \u201cDivine Vessel\u201d \u2014 on the ground flanked by Chinese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56763,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068\/revisions\/56763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}